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Friday, January 12, 2007

From the Archives: The Real World Paparazzi Contest!

posted by on January 12 at 15:05 PM

Fulfilling the wishes of commenters on this post, here is some archival evidence of The Stranger’s legendary fucking with The Real World.

For those with smaller monitors, here’s the fine print:

The Stranger wants YOU to hit the streets and catch The Real World in action! What’s in it for you? Cash and prizes! Here’s how it works: Whenever you see the Real World cast and crew out in public (they LOVE hanging out at rock clubs, coffee shops, Planet Hollywood—you know, ALL the Seattle “hot spots”), videotape or photograph them doing whatever it is they do—preferably something embarassing! Then send it to us by May 1, 1998. On May 20, at the Broadway Performance Hall, The Stranger and the Seattle International Film Festival will host a big awards ceremony and screen the best of the best videos, and fabulous prizes will be bestowed!

Good times…

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1

that would be some pretty cool youtubage material if those tapes are sitting on a shelf somewhere. :)

OR you could hold some arbitrary contest and send the winner(s) to australia with cameras with a mission to infiltrate and infuriate. that'd be pretty sweet.

Posted by charles | January 12, 2007 3:09 PM
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Who and what won the Best Video Grand Prize?

Posted by Puck | January 12, 2007 3:10 PM
3

This was before my time, but I'll ask some of the (even older) old-timers...

Posted by David Schmader | January 12, 2007 3:11 PM
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here's some ancient RW seattle gossip:
steven, alternately known as "the one that might be gay," "the black one," or, ultimately, "the one that bitch slapped his castmate on t.v.," came and hung out at the sub pop offices for a bit, under the guise of "interning."

if memory serves correctly, he was an idiot.

the RW crew also was tres miffed that they were not permitted to bring a camera crew to the sub pop 10 year anniversary party, held that year at the showbox.

we did, however, grant them interviews with some of the artists that played that year (afghan whigs, tad, murder city devils, rebecca gates, godheadsilo). somewhere in the mtv archives there exists hilarious footage of greg dulli and tad absolutely raking a couple of those kids over the coals.

Posted by kerri harrop | January 12, 2007 3:23 PM
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somewhere in the mtv archives there exists hilarious footage of greg dulli and tad absolutely raking a couple of those kids over the coals.

Tad Doyle raking kids over coals ... this, I would pay to see.

Posted by h0rati0sanzserif | January 12, 2007 3:40 PM
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greg dulli makes me all wet down there.

Posted by sally's black arts | January 12, 2007 4:07 PM
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Damn! I used to have access to the MTV footage vault. Had I only known..

Posted by kate | January 12, 2007 4:09 PM
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the real world IS idiotic, but the Seattle season was incredibly entertaining...

Posted by michael strangeways | January 12, 2007 5:04 PM
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The only real world I ever watched was the one in New Orleans my sophmore year of high school, and that was only because I was major crushing on Danny in all his gay-boy-next-door adorableness.

Posted by brandon H | January 13, 2007 12:58 AM
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The only real world I ever watched was the one in New Orleans my sophmore year of high school, and that was only because I was major crushing on Danny in all his gay-boy-next-door adorableness. I actually find the real world quite disturbing.

Posted by brandon H | January 13, 2007 12:59 AM
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Whenever people talk about the Real World, I talk about RW Seattle and all the wonderful shenanigans I witnessed and heard about. It makes me proud.

Posted by Dee in SF | January 13, 2007 10:07 AM

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